Job Details

The MAT Addiction Therapist provides individual and group therapy to adults diagnosed with addiction and mental health conditions.   This therapist works with both individuals and their family members. This professional collaborates with psychiatric and allied team members in assessment, diagnosing, treatment planning and intervention.  This position is full time

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Reports to work on time, as scheduled, and at the location assigned.    
• Completes comprehensive addiction/co-occurring assessments to create a thorough description of the individual's treatment needs, presenting problems and necessary information to develop an individualized person-centered treatment plan.
• Develops person-centered plans with diagnosis, goals, objectives, and interventions relevant to identified individual’s needs, hopes and desires.                                 

• Conducts individual, family, and/or group therapy and provides crisis triage and interventions.     
• Provides services in accordance with the person-centered plan and professional scope of practice. 
• Skill set includes diverse interventions (e.g., individual, family, group, co-occurring, trauma treatment and evidence-based practices including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, etc.)
• Documentation for co-occurring consumers includes staging and stage-matched interventions.
• Enhanced skill set surrounding treatment of mental illness, addiction and the recovery philosophy.     
• Maintains direct service hours of at least 85 per month.

• Participates in clinical team meetings and consultation.    
• Completes all documentation/progress notes, assessments, treatment plans within agency required timeframe 
• Attends regular case conferences, in-services, training, supervision and workshops.
• Strong knowledge, skill set, and experience with the disease concept of chemical dependency, substances use, trauma, stages of change and recovery.
• Knowledge of pharmacological addiction treatment approaches.   
• Proficiency in working within the biological model of SMI (Serious Mental Illness).
• Completes other duties as assigned in a reasonable established timeframe with quality expectations.

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